Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... Ned Walford's First Impressions of College Life CHAPTER X. How Man is born to Trouble ; and much more- Woman • CHAPTER XI . The Dying Station - master's History 26 47 71 80 88 · 106 124 135 CHAPTER XII . A Slight Initiation into the Ways ...
... Ned Walford's First Impressions of College Life CHAPTER X. How Man is born to Trouble ; and much more- Woman • CHAPTER XI . The Dying Station - master's History 26 47 71 80 88 · 106 124 135 CHAPTER XII . A Slight Initiation into the Ways ...
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... master died . " - Richard Wyatt was known as " a character " about that part of the country . Though such characters - shrewd and observing , though unlet- tered men are not as surprising as we are accus- tomed to think ; only , after ...
... master died . " - Richard Wyatt was known as " a character " about that part of the country . Though such characters - shrewd and observing , though unlet- tered men are not as surprising as we are accus- tomed to think ; only , after ...
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... master as General Colton ; and Richard's likes and dis- likes , Richard's sympathies and antipathies , were not hard to read ; especially when he returned to the General very short answers to many a question which seemed , in Richard's ...
... master as General Colton ; and Richard's likes and dis- likes , Richard's sympathies and antipathies , were not hard to read ; especially when he returned to the General very short answers to many a question which seemed , in Richard's ...
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... instances , " and always ending with a sly suggestion that the General and his lady , " before ever master was no more , had been asking such a sight of questions about the Manor ; the wonder was , how he could possibly.
... instances , " and always ending with a sly suggestion that the General and his lady , " before ever master was no more , had been asking such a sight of questions about the Manor ; the wonder was , how he could possibly.
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... Master Edward . He became a very weak and sickly child , and there were great doubts about rearing him . Whereupon the General proceeded , in his sanguine calculations , to reckon as if he were already dead , and to leave him wholly out ...
... Master Edward . He became a very weak and sickly child , and there were great doubts about rearing him . Whereupon the General proceeded , in his sanguine calculations , to reckon as if he were already dead , and to leave him wholly out ...
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Page 97 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 210 - s weel with you gentles, that can sit in the house with handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our work again, if our hearts were beating as hard as ony hammer.
Page 73 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 229 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 17 - See also Jer. vii. 29. Micah i. 16. Isaiah vii. 20. No. 958. — ii. 4. Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath, will he give for his life.] Before the invention of money, trade used to be carried on by barter ; that is, by exchanging one commodity for another. The men who had been hunting in the woods for wild beasts would carry their skins to market, and exchange them with the armourer for so many bows and arrows. As these traffickers were...
Page 89 - Eton, and the other public schools, properly so called; and we hope and trust that an effort will now be made on the part of the Masters and Fellows of Eton to do full justice to those committed to their charge.